Chasing Phantoms Mission Story Arc

[Hinny]

This issue is not considered complete until the following set of components is finished:

• [ ] Mission: Needle in a Haystack (Chasing Phantoms part I)
• [ ] Mission: Bait (Chasing Phantoms part II)
• [ ] Mission: Cloak and Dagger (Chasing Phantoms part III)
• [ ] Mission: Revenge (Chasing Phantoms part IV)
• [ ] #7
• [ ] #9
• [ ] #6
• [ ] #8

[rune-b]

Needle in a Haystack

I recently played Needle in a Haystack in our SE campaign. Here are some things that need to be considered when converting

Mission objectives

The objectives for this mission are a bit strange, and Josh has noted in the FAQ that they would be reworked in a new version

1. There is no real reward for completing the primary objective, or disadvantage to failing
2. Its unclear if you need to complete the primary objective in order to get the weapon container bonus. As it it now it seems best to just find the weapons and run, and not care about the escape pod

I would add some XP bonus for rescuing the pod, and that the escape pod has to be recovered and the transport has to escape in order to get the container benefit.

Also, I think it should be allowed for the transport to escape into hyperspace, so the players don't get totally screwed when the escape pod is found at the far end of the map

Recovery ship

SE Outer Rim Smuggler has +1 attack and +3 HP compared to FE. Also, more actions and a different dial. The loss of the 360 degree firing arc is probably not enough to make up for the improvements, so it needs some more nerfs I think

We played it with an SE smuggler with reduced attack and no bonus shields from player count (should have been +2 as we were 3 players)

In general the recovery ship felt balanced. It didn't deal much damage as we spent most actions on rotating and scanning. However it was rather difficult to manage to land it on top of a container/escape pod. I suspect this would have been easier with the FE dial due to the 1-turn